Jack Reacher

You tend to know what you are getting when a well known book is made into a film; however, I didn’t with this one as I hadn’t read the book.  So whether it is true to it or not, who cares it was amazing.  Forget Skyfall its all about Jack Reacher.

The soundtrack was phenomenal, full orchestral music throughout the entire 130mins (which literally flew by), it even opened for the first 5 or so minutes with no dialogue but combine that with the suspense filled score you are tense from the get go.

Yet this tension is juxtaposed in an almost Hitchcock-esque style with some of the best one liners which could easily be missed, in fact I think me and my mate were the only ones laughing in the cinema, crying with laughter at some points.

The fight scenes were the funniest, yes he is Reacher the almost super human lead protagonist, but they were just the best, think Bridget Jones combined with Taken and you are halfway there to understanding just how awesome they are whilst having high comedic value.

What makes Tom Cruise endearing (yes you read right Tom Cruise being described by the superlative endearing, never thought that would happen…) in this film, is his unpolished edge as a character and for the first time ever it could almost be forgiven to say that he was sexy, (seriously what is going on).  When some heard of his casting for this role they were disappointed, yet there is no one else that could have done it justice.  Hats off to you Mr Cruise.

Forget the slick typical Hollywood action that he dished out in the Mission Impossible’s, and enjoy the almost cheesy underdog aspect to him, where you will find yourself routing for him, despite knowing that of course he is going to pull it off as it is a film.  

Even the car chases were immense but also realistic in the endless, almost slapstick, mistakes.   It is NOT slapstick, it could even almost be described as gritty, but unusually for your typical Hollywood action it does have that something extra to it that makes you immediately want to watch it again; If not for anything other than to see Rosamund Pike’s boobs literally get bigger and bigger and her eyelashes get longer and longer throughout the duration of the film.

So go see this if you like laughing, cars, fights and boobs.